going bonkers trying to install fc-5

[Tod Merley]

On 6/18/06, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 18:54 -0500, Peter Horst wrote:
> > Boy, I am having such a hard time figuring out what's wrong here.  I had
> > a couple of old beater computers, tried to install fc-5 from a cd set.
> > Hash-verified, should have been decent disks, etc. No dice. Neither
> > computer would "see" the boot disk.  Thought, "oh, well."  Needed a new
> > box anyway. Picked up an emachines t-3418 yesterday.  Burned fc-5 iso
> > disk 1 onto a new Taiyo Yuden 700mb disk - verified that the data is
> > present & accounted for (SHA-1 hash matches). And still! Despite any
> > changes I make to the BIOS settings, I cannot get this computer to boot
> > from the install disk - tried booting from boot.iso, from the recovery
> > disk, nothing. Obviously the common denominator here is me, but I can't
> > figure out what I might be doing wrong.  Can a disk checkout hash-wise
> > and still be bad? What am I missing here?  Could it be the windows
> > software I am using to burn with?
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Peter
> >
>
> Peter,
>
> I had the same problem with an E-Machine and FC4 and finally figured out
> it was a problem with the CD drive.  For some reason the bios would not
> boot to that drive.  I swapped drives from a different E-Machine and it
> worked fine.  I don't have my notes with me tonight and do not remember
> the kind of drive, but it drove me bananas until I stumbled on the
> solution.
>
> Hope this helps!!
>
> Greg
>
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Hi Greg and Peter!

Yes the bios boot order mentioned by others is important.  Also, check that
the CD drive is set for "master" on the IDE buss (probably a jumper setting
on the back of the drive) and that no other device is set to master on the
IDE buss used.  Also, it may be that the bios will only boot from the
"master" on the primary not the secondary IDE (may it never be!!).

My 2 cents.

Good Hunting!

Tod
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